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DONALD TRUMP HAS defended comments he made that appeared to call for gun owners to protect their right to bear arms by shooting Hillary Clinton.
Speaking yesterday, first Trump falsely claimed that Clinton, his Democratic opponent, wants to “essentially abolish the Second Amendment”.
Trump then noted the power Clinton would have to nominate justices to the high court.
“By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know,” Trump told supporters at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina.
But I’ll tell you what. That will be a horrible day.
The reaction was immediate from Democrats, with widespread condemnation of the Republican presidential hopefuls remarks.
Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook said that Trump was “dangerous”.
This is simple — what Trump is saying is dangerous. A person seeking to be the president of the United States should not suggest violence in any way.
Trump later defended the comments, appearing to be confused at how they could be interpreted.
Speaking to Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Trump said that nobody in the room when he made the comments thought that he was suggesting gun owners should take the law into their own hands.
“This is a political movement. This is a strong, powerful movement, the Second Amendment… there can be no other interpretation,” said Trump.
Even reporters have told me – I mean give me a break.
At another rally later on in Fayetteville in North Caroline, Trump was careful with his words.
He repeated his argument that Clinton poses a threat to gun rights, but avoided any talk about advocates taking matters into their own hands. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, introducing him, blamed the controversy on “disgusting” journalists.
“Dishonest media”
Trump’s campaign sought to quell the controversy with a statement that blamed the “dishonest media” for misinterpretation.
And Trump’s running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, said his boss was talking about the election choice for pro-gun voters, not encouraging violence.
Yet Trump’s foes were unconvinced and unforgiving.
Tim Kaine, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, said:
I think it was just revealing… and I don’t find the attempt to roll it back persuasive at all.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, which has endorsed Clinton, said Trump was encouraging gun violence “based on conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton”.
Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren tweeted:
Elizabeth Warren / Twitter.@realDonaldTrump makes death threats because he's a pathetic coward who can’t handle the fact that he’s losing to a girl.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 9, 2016
The National Rifle Association, the gun lobby that has endorsed Trump, came to his defence.
The group wrote on Twitter that “there’s nothing we can do” if Clinton is elected, urging voters to defeat her in November.
The controversy immediately overwhelmed Trump’s intended campaign-trail focus: the economic plan he unveiled just a day earlier and was promoting during a series of rallies in the most competitive general election states.
It also reinforced the concern, voiced by many worried Republicans, that he cannot stay disciplined and avoid inflammatory remarks that imperil not only his White House prospects but the re-election chances of many GOP lawmakers.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, who was celebrating a primary victory in Wisconsin last night said:
It sounds like just a joke gone bad. I hope they clear this up very quickly. You never joke about something like that.
Clinton’s supporters are hoping the latest Trump trip-up will lead yet more of his fellow Republicans to defect.
A day earlier, Maine Senator Susan Collins became the latest to declare she won’t vote for her party’s nominee, explicitly pointing to his “constant stream of cruel comments”.
The US Secret Service, responsible for both Clinton’s and Trump’s protection, said it was aware of what Trump had said but declined to say whether it planned to investigate.
With reporting from Cormac Fitzgerald
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Trump is dangerous – the sooner this circus ends and the clown gets back in his box the better for everyones sake
Clinton isn’t exactly a better candidate. Only one of the two has blood on their hands.
so far -
Should Trump have ever had poor security & safety at any of his businesses that resulted in a fatality, he is as directly guilty of ‘murder’ as Clinton is accused of being.
Who’ll search the news archives?
Hillary voted in the massacre of 100’000s of Muslims in middle eastern war yet Trump is the bad guy…. Are you thick?
Trump didn’t have a vote … are you reverse imagining how he would have voted? You got the Trump-love real bad.
Well Hillary plans to overthrow the Syrian government which will kill thousands of more innocent Muslims. Trump wants an alliance with the Syrian government to eliminate ISIS. Trump also wants to build refugee camps rather than bring potential threats into the country. Hillary has made threats towards Russia. Trump has said he just wants a peaceful relationship. Who’s the real danger? The more you know. Educate yourself before you care to discuss matters you know nothing about.
Trump seems to like cosying up to dictators. A loudmouth coward.
She has been busy trying to overthrow the Syrian government for years along with her party and hundreds of thousands have died and for what?
The war is in its final stages and now she wants to reignite it.
Assad is a dictator but he is not the only one in the region. The difference is that he is not a friendly dictator and the Saudis and others want him gone for economic and strategic reasons. Nothing about democracy.
you are nearly as arrogant as the crazy person you support. learn some manners before you post in public.
On fairness name one US Secretary of State who has not been involved in some sort of foreign adventure… Its run of the mill in US foreign policy. That is not an excuse, more of a fact. The only reason Trump has no blood on his hands or no political scandal is because he has no record to speak of…
George he’s not a dictator. He is labeled so by the United States. No other government views him as a dictator. There’s absolutely 0 evidence of a Syrian dictatorship.
A business man who hasn’t committed murder? Bravo!
Jimmy, nobody here wants Hillary as president, it’s just they want Trump less. Your blinkered support is laughable.
Jimmy rustle , before you go calling people stupid or uneducated I think you nee to read some factual based information on the threat from ISIS and Taliban insurgents and also I suggest looking up the role outside the media the US has had in fostering closer relations with The Russian Federation. If I didn’t know better I’d think you Watched too much fox news
The liberal left needs to comprehend the consequences of a court loaded with anti-second amendment activists.
Trump only needs to say “Good Morning America” and the MSM would twist and distort those words into being dangerous rethoric bordering on racism, that Trump is clearly unstable and unfit for office. Its laughable at this stage. Why are they really going so hard after Trump?
Lots of reasons. Despite their fake polls they can’t hide the gargantuan elephant in the room – Hillary’s health. From her uncontrollable seizures, inability to stay on her feet, her incontinence,Diazepam injections and confusing statements – she only referred to Trump as her husband last week!
Then there is the empty arenas, the fact that her campaign had to pay strangers to fill hers seats at the DNC, the photoshopped pics by the media to make her look popular etc And finally they are anticipating something really damaging from Assange close to the run up to the election itself. Stuff that will do their very best to try and distract but will be simply be too big too ignore.
This is panic — blind panic. They never reckoned on Trump being such an awesome and formidable opponent. Such arrogance and hubris on their part. Don’t believe those fake polls – if they were so confident that Hilary was that far ahead why are they constantly attacking, vilifying, twisting and fabricating everything ?
Like the latest statement he made where the loony left ludicrously claimed he was in some way authorizing a hit on Hillary. Nothing of the sort was said and lets ignore all the jokes and threats to assassinate Trump by the very same scrotes shall we?
Trump was only saying it plainly and the lying media needs to say it plainly also (fat chance). The second amendment kicks into gear when guns become illegal.
For everyone’s sake the liberal left needs to know this. That is the dark fact of liberty. It will kill to survive.
“When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny”
Thomas Jefferson
That’s exactly what it is , a circus . Anything trump says , is wrapped up , distorted and taken out of context to suit the media agenda . If anything , media are setting up the perfect environment for a trump assassination
Wouldn’t be the first time someone from the Trump campaign said she should be shot, or are we forgetting what that other time? Also chlorines, there’s only one side trying to spread fear and it’s team Trump. Lying about crime figures, spreading xenophobic rhetoric, playing on people’s Base fears to gain support.
Jack, you’re and idiot. Trump has until very recently also wanted stricter gun control
Alan I’m talking about Hillary. Not the current government. Hillary said she will fight Russia and labels them a threat. She has stated this at almost every rally. I am aware of current relations especially the most recent. It’s quite a relief in fact. Hillary is more dangerous than Trump. The focus should be on her. You took out Hillary and replaced it with “US” so no I’m not uneducated. Trumps a loud mouth and that’s all they need so no secret goes behind the publics back. It’s as simple as that.
That would be the biggest mistake they ever made Jack.
Why don’t you
Jimmy, Trump is full of shit, where sis you get the idea that loud-mouths are honest?
This is gone embarrassing now, he was obviously talking about a legal challenge!!!
If people are able to make a death threat out of that it’s incredible, this constant Trump bashing is starting to use Trump’s own tactics of stretching a situation so far that it no longer resembles reality, stop getting in the gutter with him and focus on things that actually matter!!!
Then why did he say it would be a horrible day when that legal challenge was made? Let’s not forget that only two weeks ago an advisor to Trump action said Hillary should be shot
Mick engage the grey matter and look at whats really going on
“By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks” That’s why it will be a horrible day, because the second amendment will be under threat… It’s so blindingly obvious!
and the fact that Hillary doesn’t want to get rid of the second at all, but trump just made that up out of thin air? are we going to just ignore that fact? gun control is not the same as banning guns. like, at all! insane people should not have easy access to guns. everyone else can keep their penis extensions
Your proof Darwin was wrong. But going by that comment of bile, i suppose you can take that any way you want.
That was meant for Chlorine72.
Mick, why not use his full quote instead of a fraction followed by your opinion?
“When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny”
Thomas Jefferson
There was already 2 assassination attemps on trump , the would be assassin , the 2 would be assassins got applauded by the left , with the first culprit given an interview on CNN and giving his views on why trump upset him . Let’s face it CNN are glorifying an hit on trump
Except all the genocide.
Thats right jack – an intruder was apprehended in Trump towers in possession of a glock with the serial numbers missing.
Turns out that when they did a check on his ID – he had been using the name of a dead FBI agent was was killed on duty back in 2008.
Only high level government agents carry guns without serial numbers. Security experts reckon it was CIA.
Not a peep out of the MSM.
I have no problem using the full quote, because it underlines what I’m saying!
Maybe the second amendments people can prevent it from happening… ie maybe the people who disagree with it can stop it… how in the name of god is that a call to violence!!!
@Julien We don’t have to ignore any facts about making up things, Trump does it all the time and the Clinton camp are starting to do it more and more frequently… Take this garbage for example!
And Hillary Clinton wanted to bomb the Syrian Arab Republic after the major success of Libya, with only a government, ambassador and guards lost. She now wants to revisit the Syrian debacle. Heaven help us.
Jason
The choice is very poor, and while many dislike clinton myself included, what I have seen and heard of Trump over the last year has given overwhelming evidence he is a bigot, racist, narcissist, misogynistic, bully and the closest to Fascism I have ever seen in the US. His policy is to state the totally outrageous and generate fear and hate, with little logical strategy on any issue now if you prefer that well there are many in the US that agree, and for me this is the scariest part.
Mick Johnson, that’s still not the full quote.
Hypocritical Selective outrage.
MSM loses the head when Trump jokes about the 2nd amendment, but falls silent when HIS life is threatened online etc
Rowe, you just did the very same. What person with millions of followers and massive influence called for Trump to be killed?
It wasn’t a call to violence Dave. Whole quote or not.
You’re quoting Jefferson in support of Trump? Jebus wept.
@Dave,
Trump never actually called for anyone to be killed now did he?
Where as you can go to your social media of choice and there are thousands of death threats directed at him.
Only two weeks ago an advisor to Trump called for her to be shot. Also this is very clearly Trump saying that unless he wins people should get their guns and do something about it.
Show me where he clearly says that please.
@rowetten
He told security he would pay for any lawsuit while his security were violently getting some one out.
Not only was he giving them a right to get more violent, but he also expressed his views on the judiciary system…
Prouesse, that was an instruction to the crowd, not security
Mick, show me where he clearly doesn’t. You still haven’t used the full quote. Tell me what would be so horrible about it if it was people using their vote that he was referring to?
But his VP did have a vote and voted the same way!
Don’t get me started on Pence
Russle
Please display your ignorance elsewhere
Certainly no tax records
Chlorines
Which of your mess are you not taking
Hillary backers would never waste a bullet on Trump
She does not even need to campaign now as he insists on displaying his total ignorance
Democrats relax you never had it easier
Thank you Mr Trump
Meds
This election is an election of hate. It’s not about who you like, it’s going against who you hate. Not exactly ideal politics.
Look around. Politics of fear and hate are being used all over. That’s what won Brexit. Single out a fear people have, make it huge, tell them you’re the answer. People are sheep and fall for it.
its a hell of a lot easier to provoke fear and hate than it is to inspire hope and trust (take any conversation about migration for instance). thats why you get zero-charisma lads hoovering up votes. plus our soundbite news media is more suited to engaging the emotions and not the intellect
Engage the intellect? Even the very left wing George Galloway is against unchecked migration because it results in worsening the lot of the working classes. Proven. There’s a simple intellectual point about migration.
No emotion, no hate, no fear, no racism, just a fact. There is a problem though with people claiming those emotions are the cause instead of the facts, when they don’t like what the facts say. So it’s easier just to call people stupid / racist / afraid etc etc etc
Why choose only that fact? Overall immigration is positive for an economy – with small short term effects on lower paid workers’ wages and long term positive effects on lower paid workers’ wages. The negative short term effect is most prominent on existing residents who are also immigrants. The evidence is that immigration has a net positive effect on economic growth and employment. Are you arguing that a small short-term negative effect on one group should result in an economy refusing the large positive gains for the broader economy? If there was a policy that reduced slightly the incomes of the top earners in the short-term but benefitted everyone else significantly, would you be against that? If you want to see what the broader benefits are to the economy look here https://www.oecd.org/migration/mig/OECD%20Migration%20Policy%20Debates%20Numero%202.pdf and if you want to see the evidence of the small and short term effects on low paid workers look here http://www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/briefings/labour-market-effects-immigration
Who said anything about unchecked? Refugees in America go through multiples checks
I will take a look at those reports because I’m always open to other view points.
I am skeptical about your assertions though given that the hourly rate for a tradesman in Yorkshire was €24 / h 15 years ago and is now €15 due to immigration and has not picked up. Likewise Dublin taxi drivers have not seen medium term benefits from migrants flooding their profession. Most economic data I come across for this is based on growing economies which take in migrants and then they conflate the migrants with the growth, when in fact the growth would have happened anyway. But I’ll look at them this evening
@Dave Illegal Mexicans go through many checks do they?!
@ Declan: “Dustmann et al (2013) find that each 1% increase in the share of migrants in the UK-born working age population leads to a 0.6% decline in the wages of the 5% lowest paid workers”
Is that not what I said? From the report you directed me to.
Mick, well done for not knowing the difference between immigrants and refugees. I’d say I’m disappointed but I didn’t expect any better from you
“(take any conversation about migration for instance)”… that was Jester’s quote. He did not distinguish between refugees or immigrants, “migration” includes both.
In 2015, the USA accepted 70,000 refugees. Whereas the number of immigrants rose by 1.7 million in the same year. So any point – such as yours – about immigration to america regarding refugees alone is pointless as they represent such a tiny proportion of overall migration – which is what was being discussed.
It is not surprising that a lour mouthed idiot such as Trump exists. It is surprising that he has the Republican nomination and any support however wavering. This is not a sensible, rational or even coherent candidate for the US Presidency.
Trump is full of stupid and empty rhetoric, indulging his ego on the national stage, silly, pointification got and stupid enough in his utterances to get someone killed.
Trump does not possess the wits, the sense, the temperament or the smarts to be President of the United States.
Support is only wavering within the established Republican Party circles. In the polls Trump is doing quite well.
No he is not – he has fallen 6% in the past week and Hilary now has a 9% lead in the poll of polls
Eh Jason. Usually you speak sense but you are way off the mark here. Trumps poll numbers are terrible compared with other republican nominees who last the race. Remember trump pretty much has to bag all the republican voters who voted for McCain / Romney and add to it to win. That is not happening at the minute
Jason, sorry to break it to you, there may not be enough nutters and morons in the US to secure your boys election as president.
From the evidence of his campaign so far, this is the key demographic he is appealing to.
If he was just suggesting they vote then why the comment about it being a horrible day?
The comment that she can appoint judges who she likes also applies to him too. His campaign as been left with only one route to get elected which is ridicule the opponent. this worked for party nomination but won’t work for the presidency. He is a one trick pony and the trick ain’t that good
he is putting the dots out there they people only need to join up. politically coded language is everywhere, just like the way ‘tough on crime’ sounds like ‘keep black people locked away’ to a lot of people
What dots? He has been caught out on massive lies and keeps putting his foot in his mouth. He lost party support and is blaming the media for his own comments.
@Jester Obviously you are proud of your politics degree but there’s no need to stretch the truth!
Trump can easily make Americans safe again’ just by dropping out…
“Trump can easily make Americans safe again’ just by dropping out…”
According to you Hillary has it in the bag , why would you want him to drop out ?
It must be the other way around in the polls so — I reckon Trump is at least 15 points ahead of Hillary.
Guess what?
He ain’t dropping out.
Hi Jack Napier/Chlorines
Can you show me those polls that show that Trump is at least 15% ahead of Hillary nationwide ?
Hillary is rarely in the news. (Which is no harm cause she’s not that likeable herself) but it looks like the easiest stroll to the Whitehouse for as long as I can remember
Trump makes a mean comment and you’ll see no end to the articles. Hillary barely makes it into the news when the FBI announces its investigating her or that she’s being sued over the email scandal. No mention of the outright corruption in the DNC anymore either.
they all got reported, the thing about the news is, it’s ‘new-s’
Hillary doesn’t keep making recent public faux-pas, which is currently what’s hurting Trump.
Well Hillary, all you have to do is not suggest assassinating your opponent and you’re a shoe in. (Don’t f*ck it up)
Get that baby outta here, did you really think I wanted a baby crying when I’m giving a speech. This has hurt him a lot.
@Del Haven………How the media visciously distorts Donald Trump in trying to destroy him. If he’s not dead after this ‘Baby Scam’ the media will never kill him.
Mother of baby denies lies by Media trying to destroy Donald Trump over her baby.
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WILL MEDIA APOLOGIZE TO TRUMP? Mother of Crying Baby at Rally Speaks Out, Defends Trump
The mother of the crying baby that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump joked about at an Ashburn, Virginia campaign rally on Tuesday has spoken out disputing the media and Clinton campaign’s smear job against Trump over the incident.
Devan Ebert first wrote an open letter to Trump on Facebook that went viral (the original appears to have been made private). Ebert then spoke to the Washington Post in an email interview that was published Saturday afternoon that largely tracked with the viral Facebook post.
Glenn Kessler, the ‘fact-checker’ for the Post who interviewed Ebert, gave Trump the ‘Geppetto Checkmark’ for being truthful when he said he did not throw the baby out of the rally.
The news media jumped ugly on Trump over his lighthearted remarks about the crying baby and made no effort to ascertain the facts of the situation. As Kessler points out, a Toronto Star reporter named Daniel Dale wrote about the incident that day and noted the woman stepped out on her own and returned to her seat later with the baby quieted by a pacifier.
…The baby was one row in front of me, three or four rows from the stage, at Trump’s event at a high school in Ashburn, Va. When it began to cry, Trump said, “Don’t worry about that baby, I love babies. I love babies. I hear that baby crying, I like it. I like it. What a baby, what a beautiful baby. Don’t worry, don’t worry. The mom’s running around — don’t worry about it.”
People applauded. One minute later, though, the baby began to cry again. This time, the mother quickly decided to take the baby out of the room. Trump, looking in our direction, appeared to notice that she was on her way to the exit.
And then he said, “Actually, I was only kidding. You can get the baby out of here. That’s all right. Don’t worry. I think she really believed me that I love having a baby crying while I’m speaking?” He cupped his hand over his eyes to watch her leave. “That’s OK, people don’t understand. That’s OK.”
A joke? Possibly. An insensitive, heartless, ordinary-person-embarrassing remark? Possibly. Trump’s tone is eternally hard to read. But, to my eyes, it certainly was not an ejection — it was an unusually barbed endorsement of the mother’s own decision to depart.
One other salient fact is missing from all the pieces on babygate. Mom and baby, very much not kicked out, came back to their seat a bit later.
The baby was sucking a pacifier, silent.”
That was published the day of the incident. The media piled on Trump as a cold, mean, woman-hating, baby-hating man. And the media wonders why Trump holds them in such contempt.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/08/will-media-apologize-trump-mother-crying-baby-rally-speaks/
Oh no! He said something and they believed it. Are you saying they should not believe what he says?
Trump has a lot of defending to do. It’s a pity the same media don’t constantly put Hilary on the Blackfoot. I think she is way more dangerous than Trump. Trump if elected, could be managed. And his policies put Americans first. Hilary can never be managed except perhaps by her globalist, one world, billionaire, open borders, western civilisation hating backers. She’s cut from the same cloth as Merkel and her fiat dictates. Undermine western civilisation and the nation state and make way for the globalists and the bankers.
You need new hearing aid
Blackfoot?
What is this Blackfoot Marge – an “Indian” reservation? You think Trump gets a hard time? Well maybe he should stop saying idiotic things. Maybe that is why you like him? And you know fiat means diktat or decree? Except when it is an Italian car.
“fiat dictates” is probably supposed to be “fiat diktats” and even then the combination is redundant. is “Blackfoot” supposed to be racist?
I think “blackfoot” belongs in the same linguistic bin as “pedal stool”.
@Marge- “Trump can be managed”, eh..isn’t the President meant to be the one you put your trust in to do the managing? If his supporters think he neds managing, it says it all really.
Bit early for the sauce, isn’t it, Marg?
maybe it is auto correct and is meant to be backfoot
dopeys
and whats the excuse for the rest of the garbled nonsense?
@Damocles, or a damp squid!
Thanks Del, I was trying to remember the other one.
Living, autocorrect doesn’t invent words
Of course it is backfoot. They choose to be idiots because idiocy comes easy to lefties . No critical thinking involved. Just blind and slavering obedience to the orthodoxy. And lots and lots of virtue signalling. That’s all it takes to be a leftist. The thicker the better,.
@dara. I agree with you but look at the other candidate. We are really dealing with damage limitation here.
I’m not a lefty. How very dare you!
it does for margie
I recall the same BS about “he can be controlled ” and “he’ll be surrounded by experts to advise him” being said in 2000 about GWB and look how that turned out – two long wars and a massive economic collapse resulting in a black guy from Hawaii taking over from him.
larry, he was controlled and experts were rice, cheney and rumsfeld to name a few. he was just a mouthpiece who was thick enough to do their bidding
He can’t even read a script, also why does he always point to his dick? https://youtu.be/IJigwEikRwY
“Of course it is backfoot. They choose to be idiots because idiocy comes easy to lefties . No critical thinking involved. Just blind and slavering obedience to the orthodoxy. And lots and lots of virtue signalling. That’s all it takes to be a leftist. The thicker the better,.”
That’s rich coming from the ignoramus who took me to talk for knowing stuff about the subject I was commenting on. From the loudmouth racist who time and time again demonstrates incredible pride in her own ignorance and from an anti-intellectual who rejects facts she doesn’t like.
You’re an utter hypocrite, Marg, but sadly too stupid to see it yourself.
“Who took me to talk”. How’s that auto correct going for ya there Phil the blank. I think underneath that bluff exterior you really like me Philly Willy. Why else would you you continually stalk me. You respond to every thing I post, whereas I ignore you for the pious, sanctimonious bore that you are. Pretentions of intellectualism, a very defensive and petulant nature, a tantrum thrower and a prize tool. Now fcuk off cos I won’t be “taking you to talk” anymore.
“I ignore you” says Margie while replying to Phil
@Marge Murphy……Donald Trump’s constantly defending himself under such hostile pressure is the greatest test that will make him the best of president’s when he attains the presidency of the UnIted States of America in Nov/Jan.
What-difference-does-it-make-now Hillary ,with her costant evasiveness and lying ,her association with Muslim Brotherhoods esp.,her very close friend and confidant MB -connected Huma Abedin who knows all US state secrets from Hillay’s Emails would be an absolute disaster for the America.
Patrick, Donald Trump would run America like he runs his campaign, by making a mess and getting someone else to clean it up and help him save face
“Who took me to talk”. How’s that auto correct going for ya there Phil the blank.”
Phil Blanc, my user name is Phil Blanc, It shouldn’t be too hard to grasp, even for you, Marg.
” I think underneath that bluff exterior you really like me Philly Willy.”
No, I think you’re a representative of the worst kind of person, an ignorant bully.
“Why else would you you continually stalk me.”
Responding to you, as I do to others, in an open comments section on a website isn’t stalking.
“You respond to every thing I post,”
Because you post so much bulls__t, and are so proud of your ignorance. It seeds to be addressed.
“whereas I ignore you for the pious, sanctimonious bore that you are.”
You don’t ignore me. Clearly. You are responding to me here!
“Pretentions of intellectualism, a very defensive and petulant nature, a tantrum thrower and a prize tool.”
I’d be worried if an ignorant moron like you had any fondness for me.
“Now fcuk off cos I won’t be “taking you to talk” anymore.”
I’ll be taking you to task over every piece of ill-informed ignorant racist hateful shIte you post, as I always have.
Ever thought of brushing up on your English grammar, spelling, punctuation and the use of the apostrophe before you pretend to know anything about politics or the difference between facts and the kind of nonsense that pours from Trump’s mouth in a constant stream?
Amadán.
Aw Phil. You really do spend a lot of time and energy on me. Love it that get under your skin. You’re such a dick!
@Margie. And that is where we diverge. I actually despise Clinton, her continuation of the nihilistic status quo, and the awful dearth of creative politics she represents. I simply think that Trump brings nothing but panic, lowest common denominator hate-polirics, an anti-intellectual brand of politics and the world closer to crisis. He is deranged and he scares me. So now.
How did people link Americans defending the second amendment to assassinating Hillary? He never said anything about killing Clinton. Words put in his mouth.
Jimmy you’re not very smart if you can’t see what he is doing
I’m not illiterate so I don’t make any assumptions about what people say especially when the source of this assumption was Hillary Clintons team who are desperately trying to shut him down so much that they twist his words to suit there agenda. It’s all fun and games bashing Trump until the US goes to war with Russia under Hillarys rule. Smarten up and read his words.
They don’t need to twist them at all, everyone hears them for what they are. He’s not making these comments in private.
“Dog whistle politics”
This is the same article posted last night, just reorganised with some Republican tweets added.
I think I need advice as to where to get my news updates.
Mad Magazine is a good source, knocks the bejausus out of this site for current news anyway
To be honest if you are using the Journal to get news updates…you deserve what you get…the Journal is more about polls on your favourite colour…type of rain…or fart smell.
I use the Daily Telegraph for actual world news.
Channel 5 news team
the telegraph is a tory sop
Agree , telegraph gives intelligent analysis. Every outlet has some bias – you take the different outlets – mix em up and what sounds right and sounds like common sense is usually as close as you will get to the news. John Batchelors daily podcasts do keep me sane and optimistic about the possibilities for intelligent and reasoned analysis though. Varied / in depth and current. https:// audioboom.com/channel/johnbatchelor
Sad state of affairs when these are the options open to Americans. Unimaginable that one of these could be leading one of the biggest countries in the world.
The Republicans are going to loose all over the place. Not alone is crazy handing the WH to the democrats but the other houses too.
Ok the journal, you hate trump, we get it, give us a break,
We all do so there’s clearly a market for more of this stuff. It also brings out the Trump Trolls driving yet more traffic and hits to the site. Trump is the candidate that keeps on giving so I wouldn’t expect any end to this until November.
Hate to break the news to you Gerard but we’re not trolls. How much research have you actually done on Trump before your few cells formed an uneducated opinion? You think we’re trolls because we have been intimidated and violently oppressed into hiding away. Nobody can handle the truth anymore. You’re just a simple stormtrooper fighting for the evil empire while the rebels are blasting you out. When history is written your misinformed ideas will be nothing more than the embarrassing details of a failed narrative.
Does America really want a president who has so little control over his mouth. The man would cause massive issues the moment he was elected
Surprised Rudy would back Trump!!
Rudy Giuliani is a total idiot. It’s not surprising at all he’s a Trump supporter. Trump only attracts the inexcusably thick.
It’s as if Trump is working for Clinton at this stage. Every time he opens his mouth it gives her another shove up the ladder.
Like Hitler, Trumpler has a powerful ability to stimulate the basest and most dangerous instincts in people and encourage them to use violence against those who oppose him and what they mistakenly believe they stand for. His latest wink-wink, nudge-nudge comment is as clearly incitement to murder as Hitler egging on the hate- and fear-filled mobs in the lead up to the Kristallnacht. There are more than enough heavily armed ignorant redneck and teabagger losers and crazies among his supporters to take extreme action against one of the people, Hillary Clinton foremost among them, he regularly demonises. A radical Islamic imam who dropped hints like Trumpler’s in his sermons would – quite rightly – have been locked up on the spot.
Trumpler has created a monster and he would be wise to stop goading it into a worse frenzy. If he stops for a moment to think, it might occur to him that it could easily happen that something he says or doesn’t say or what the voices in some whack-job’s head tell him he has said could rile Billy-Bob or Beauregard so much that he decides to bump him off?
Frankenstein likewise created a monster. Maybe The Donald should reflect on what happened to Frankenstein himself in the end.
@Fintan OFlaois…………………. what-difference-does-make-now Hillary nutjob supporter tries to kill Donald Trump supporter. (Just 2 weeks ago as reported in local media here) .Fintan is FOS as usual.
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—”Paul Jones, Trump supporter, shot at Cleveland bar during heated …
http://www.washingtontimes.com/…/paul-jones-trump-supporter-shot-at-cleveland-bar-d
Jul 27, 2016 – A Donald Trump supporter is recovering from a gunshot/ wound after he said a … Actually that is an aggravated battery and attempted murder.
voiced his disagreement.
“Somebody who was butting in on the conversation,” Mr. Jones told ABC from his hospital bed. “The conversation wasn’t directed at him or to him.”
Mr. Jones said the man got visibly angry and stormed out of the bar. He came back armed with a gun, Mr. Jones said.
Cleveland police said the man shot Mr. Jones in the thigh and fled. Detectives are still searching for the shooter, who
will be charged with felonious assault if caught, ABC reported.—”
Patrick, a guy shot a guy he had a disagreement with. Happens everyday in America
If you can manage to write something intelligibly for once, do tell us what the violent act of ONE unknown individual has to do with a globally known candidate for high office issuing veiled threats of murder.
How do you manage to write so much utter garbage almost every day?
regardless, the interesting thing is warren coming out and saying trump is fearful of being beaten by a girl. that will eventually entice the gender debate and that is when this circus will get even more entertaining.
hilary clinton is a war monger of gargantuan proportions. and she has done it in a way that is simply a continuation of the bush-cheney junta within the obama administration. it is clinton that has protected america’s interests around the globe.and she will undoubtedly continue her husbands work to destroy places like Palestine. saying that the increased settlements are just an obstacle now, and using their power of veto each time at the UN when the whole deplores what is happening there. watch her speech on BDS, or her debate with Sanders on such matters. so regardless of the opposition, she is dangerous.
gargantuan? tone back on the rhetoric there m8
Living, you must be a special kind of stupid I’d you think gender isn’t already a big issue in this
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sure dave, but trump hasn’t got desperate yet. he has no ambition beyond november if he loses so everything will be thrown into the ring.
Trump has already made his opinions on women abundantly clear
If you can twist those words that far then you’re deluded. There’s nothing to even point out; it’s stupidity of the highest order.
The Guardian hired a collection of the most morally bankrupt leftists they could find – and have recently been begging for donations. Surely they’ll be making a case for actual corporate welfare soon!
Ok then, if it’s using their right to vote that he’s referring to then why does he say it will be a horrible day?
Also why not refer to an amendment that has something to do with the right to vote
How easy we forget!!! This election is a farce…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/may/23/hillaryclinton.barackobama?CMP=share_btn_link
This is the sole purpose of Hillarys Campaign and I beg the journal to cover this. Michael Morell an ex cia director calls for war with Russia while he endorses Clinton. https://amp.twimg.com/v/c17aad58-2163-45d1-a0e7-f28ea741a287
Yeah, that guy seems sane.
He’s Sane enough to Hate Trump who is apparently the face of world war 3 to some people here. I tell people Hillary will stir up war against the Syrian government but they think I’m wearing a tinfoil hat. The journal just haven’t covered this yet.
Jimmy, take a look at the Syria related stories on here. Syria’s government is at war with Syria
The New York times think he is sane enough to give him an op-ed.. or more than likely they are insane too… fair enough he could be just trying to flog a book or get some role but is still jaw dropping stuff.. some kudos for his honesty though.
Hmmm, you really think a guy at that level publicly declares what he wants America to secretly do?
You’re right – I was being lazy / dumb saying honesty..! I can count on one hand the people in this world that I fully trust/ believe to be honest at this stage… I should have said kudos for his neck or something. . I get he is just playing his angle / game- but is still pretty jaw dropping stuff..!
Everybody is a senior expert in some field or another in an election year.
Not that I’m saying Morell has no credentials or anything, it’s more a general comment
If he did mean for this should be interpreted as everyone should unite to vote against her, what did he mean by the following statement of “But I’ll tell you what. That will be a horrible day.”
Is he recognizing that he would be a horrible chose for president?
The liberal media are distorting his comments. Show me where he said “shoot” as implied by CNN and Newstalk? By the way CNN is owned by Time Warner, which donated $411,000 to the Clinton campaign. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-hanley/money-talks-why-cnn-wants_b_8313536.html
hillarys dying anyway by the looks of things
Yeah, the orange guy, with verbal diarrhea who needs to praise for breath after every two words is perfectly healthy
ALL of us are dying, Mr. O’Callaghan, including you.
Do not be so sure that you will live to see the demise of Mrs. Clinton. When it is time for her – and for you and I – to face the Final Judgement is something that Our Lord and Saviour will decide.
I think both Trump and Clinton are equally incapable of being president of the USA. There seems to be a discrepancy in what the media are reporting on and what was allegedly said by Trump. Can the journal.ie please carry out one of their fact checks on this issue. Did Donald Trump say at anytime that someone should shoot Hillary Clinton?
So you’re saying that’s what? She’s saying elections can change very quickly so there’s no point pulling out. Yes it’s insensitive but that’s about it
Give me a break!OK Donald I’ll give you one.your neck!you fool.
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